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...process devised by John Woods Beckman, Oakland, Calif., industrial chemist, proves commercially practicable, people will have tiny "bugs" to thank for their soap, salad oil, synthetic hot dogs,* margarin, shortening and such commercial products as Mazola, Wesson Oil, Snowdrift, Crisco, Nuco Butter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Oil by Bugs | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

Charles Baskerville was the first American to discover a new element. He established the fact that thorium, hitherto supposed to be an element is really a combination of two substances called by him carolinium after the State of North Carolina and Berzelium after Berzelius a Swedish chemist who discovered thorium nearly a century ago. These new elements were first found by Prof. Baskerville in the monazite sand of North Carolina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 24, 1930 | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

...reassure a timid patron, one of the clerks brandished a copy of TIME, pointing to the paragraph which quoted a chemist's report that one sample from the shop contained 45% alcohol, was nonpoisonous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Emporium Stuck Up | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

...represent Illinois in the realm of scholarship and science. When he, with his wife and daughter, takes up residence in the president's house on Urbana's Nevada street next autumn, he will meet Professor Samuel Wilson Parr of the Chemistry department. It is to Professor Parr that Illinois chemists turn for solace and inspiration in chemical experimentation. More important than his own work in the chemistry of coal, is the part Professor Parr played in encouraging the sort of research which ultimately led Professor B. Smith Hopkins to discover Element No. 61. This, the only element so far revealed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: U. of Illinois | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

Died. Dr. William Henry Nichols, 78, Manhattan chemist, copperman, banker, board chairman of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp., world's greatest chemical enterprise; at Honolulu; of heart disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 3, 1930 | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

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